State Without a Landlord: An Architecture Proposal for Peer-to-Peer Replication of Durable Workflow State

📅 2026-09-15
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本文提出了一种基于对等复制的持久工作流状态架构,通过认证的追加日志和显式证书来解决现有框架中状态权威性和信任问题。
📝 Abstract
Durable-execution frameworks commonly journal execution steps of a long-running function and reconstruct state by deterministic replay; the journal is therefore the workflow's authoritative state, and in current deployments it typically resides with whichever provider hosts the run. This paper examines what changes if the journal is instead an authenticated, append-only log replicated among the parties to the workflow. We propose an architecture in which runs are chains of single-writer epoch cores; executor succession is governed by quorum-finalized closure certificates; durability, timeout, and checkpoint decisions are carried by explicit certificates rather than implicit trust; and large payloads travel a separate content-addressed distribution plane. A threat model separates what signatures establish (authorship and order) from what they do not (truth of recorded effects). We state the design as a set of typed artifacts and invariants, identify which claims are established by existing systems and which are proposals requiring validation, and define the prototype experiments, including specific adversarial cases, that would validate or falsify the proposal's central mechanisms.
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peer-to-peer replication
durable workflow state
authenticated log
append-only log
executor succession
Innovation

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Peer-to-Peer Replication
Authenticated Append-Only Log
Closure Certificates
Content-Addressed Distribution Plane
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Luca Maraschi
Platformatic Inc.
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Matteo Collina
Platformatic Inc.